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Lone Star Park Handicap
Grade III race
LocationLone Star Park
Grand Prairie, Texas United States
Inaugurated1997
Race typeThoroughbred - Flat racing
Websitewww.lonestarpark.com
Race information
Distance11/16 miles (8.5 furlongs)
TrackDirt, left-handed
QualificationThree-years-old & up
WeightAssigned
Purse$400,000

The Lone Star Park Handicap is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the last week of May at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas. A Grade III event open to horses age three and older, it is contested on dirt over a distance of 11/16 miles (8.5 furlongs).

The Lone Star Park Handicap was first run as a Grade III event in 2000. In 2001, Dixie Dot Com became the only horse to win in the same year the Lone Star Park Handicap and the Texas Mile Stakes, known as "The Texas Two Step."

Records

Speed record:

  • 1:40.53 - Dixie Dot Com (2001) (stakes and track record)

Most wins:

  • 2 - Mocha Express (1998, 1999)

Most wins by a jockey:

Most wins by a trainer:

Most wins by an owner:

Winners

Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Time
2009 It's a Bird 6 Julien Leparoux Martin D. Wolfson Edmund A. Gann 1:41.83
2008 Giant Gizmo 4 Garrett Gomez Robert J. Frankel Stronach Stable 1:43.01
2007 Bob and John 4 Garrett Gomez Bob Baffert Stonerside Stable 1:45.02
2006 Magnum 5 Pat Valenzuela Darrell Vienna Herrick Racing LLC 1:42.88
2005 Supah Blitz 5 Jon Court Douglas F. O'Neill Black Saddle Stable et al 1:41.90
2004 Yessirgeneralsir 4 Omar Figueroa Dallas Keen Jim D. Jackson 1:41.29
2003 Pie N Burger 5 Jamie Theriot Cole Norman Kagele Bros. et al 1:42.03
2002 Congaree 4 Pat Day Bob Baffert Stonerside Stable 1:42.96
2001 Dixie Dot Com 6 David Flores William Morey, Jr. D. & C. Chaiken/B. & R. Heller 1:40.53
2000 Luftikus 4 David Flores Vladimir Cerin Stronach Stable 1:40.87
1999 Mocha Express 5 Marlon St. Julien Tim Harder Mary Dodd/A. R. Harder 1:43.36
1998 Mocha Express 4 Marlon St. Julien Tim Harder A. R. Harder/Don Strate 1:42.17
1997 Connecting Terms 4 Larry Melancon W. Elliott Walden Prestonwood Farm 1:41.97

References